Read about it here. If you’re interested in Wood’s history against newspapers, well, you know what to do.

]]>https://papermister.wordpress.com/2019/02/20/lin-wood-is-not-a-friend-to-newspapers/feed/0perrypatrickSmall town newspaper with a small time editorhttps://papermister.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/small-town-newspaper-with-a-small-time-editor/
https://papermister.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/small-town-newspaper-with-a-small-time-editor/#respondTue, 19 Feb 2019 21:55:34 +0000http://papermister.wordpress.com/?p=176614260Goodloe Sutton. Good grief.

This isn’t Sutton’s first rodeo, either. As explored by Alabama Political Reporter’s Chip Brownlee, the Democrat-Chronicle has a long history of publishing racist and xenophobic articles and cartoons. You should go read APR’s round-up, because holy shit, but it’s essentially more of the same 1960s-era rhetoric: There’s the anti-Colin Kaepernick column where Sutton wrote that black people were taught 200 years ago to “kneel before a white man,” one headlined “Need cotton pickers” that somehow pivoted to an anti-Semitic rant, and a thank you letter to Russia for their role in the campaign against Hillary Clinton, who he refers to as “little Miss Piggy.”

]]>https://papermister.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/small-town-newspaper-with-a-small-time-editor/feed/0perrypatrickWiley Miller’s in hot waterhttps://papermister.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/wiley-millers-in-hot-water/
https://papermister.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/wiley-millers-in-hot-water/#respondWed, 13 Feb 2019 12:12:08 +0000http://papermister.wordpress.com/?p=176614257Before and after of the “Non Sequitur” that landed Mr. Miller some trouble.

Newspapers are dropping “Non Sequitur,” after the cartoonist Wiley Miller included a not-so-nice comment about POTUS.

The original, for those of you who can’t read backward, says “go fuck yourself Trump.”

Kevin Riley, editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, said Wiley Miller’s comic, “Non Sequitur,” will be replaced starting in today’s newspaper. “Obviously, this does not meet our standards,” Riley said. “We apologize to all of our readers, and we’ve personally reached out to every single subscriber who’s contacted us.”

AJC — 02/12/2019

According to the AJC article, Miller says, “It was NOT intended for public consumption, and I meant to white it out before submitting it, but forgot to.”

Southern newspapers in that era though did not hide, mask, or condone lynching — they actively rooted for it and supported it.

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Southern newspapers literally built their reputations, history, and current presence based on lynching and white supremacy. Newspapers sold copies by the tens of thousands by sensationalizing lynching and buying into lynching not as a form of naked violence, but as an ideology to be encouraged, defended, and protected.

It’s a difficult read, but it’s important to recall the history the newspapers played in racial divisiveness in the last century.

]]>https://papermister.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/a-sad-history/feed/0perrypatrickKudos for this hedhttps://papermister.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/kudos-for-this-hed/
https://papermister.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/kudos-for-this-hed/#respondThu, 31 Jan 2019 12:41:43 +0000http://papermister.wordpress.com/?p=176614246This is one that I wish I had penned! Great job to The Washington Post staff.